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E. W. BRYANT.

ToBAeeo PIPE.

No. 566,739.'` f

Patented Sept. l, 1896 fri/ j 217; L C l? P d f e, em ef e d e E l?UNITED STATES PATENT Erica EDWARD WVM. BRYANT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOBACCO-PIPE.A

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,739, datedSeptember 1, 1896.

Application filed .I une 5, 1895. Serial N0. 551,70?. (No model.)

To a/ZZ, whom it may concern/ Be it known that I, EDWARD Wn. BRYANT, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of NewYork, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tobaccolipes, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, forming a partthereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts.

Myinvcntion relates to improvements in pipes, and more particularly tocertain new and novel means for avoiding as far as possible the foulingof pipes with nicotine and for facilitating the cleaning of pipes afterbeing used for some time.

With these and other important ends in View the invention contemplatesproviding in an ordinary pipe of almost any construction, in whichpreferably the mouthpiece can be removed from the bowl and its adjacentstem, a tube made in two parts and adapted to be secured within the boreof the entire stem, so that the same may be readily removed and cleanedwhen desired.

The invention consists of a pipe provided with the usual tubular steinand mouthpiece, a tube composed of two longitudinal sections of equallength and as long as the combined bores of mouthpiece and stem, whosemeeting edges are provided with opposite corresponding lockingprojections and notches, the said tube also having an enlarged andscrew-threaded section serving to receive the enlarged screw-threadedopposite ends of mouthpiece and stem and thereby unite them.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional viewof a pipe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the tube removedfrom the pipe, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line inof Fig. I.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the bowl of an ordinary pipe,having the usual adjacent portion of the stein a and a mouthpiece a'.

The bore B of the entire stem is larger preferably than in the ordinarystem to receive the tube C.

The tube C is made in two longitudinal sections c c', the mee ting edgesof which are pref erably provided with one or more short series ofcorresponding notches D and projections d, by means of which thesections can be easily and quickly xed together in their proper relativepositions. The tube Gis also provided with an enlarged and threadedshoulder E, which is adapted to screw into the threaded end b of thestem a and also receive the threaded end b of the mouthpiece a, wherebythe tube is securely fastened within the pipe and the mouthpiece issecured iu position.

In the practica-l use of my improved pipe I have found it desirable tomake the tube wider at its inner end that at its outer end, as clearlyshown in Fig. I. The tube lits snugly within the bore of the stem, andthe smoke of the tobacco passes only through the tube, and the nicotinethat ordinarily collects in the bore of the stem is retained in thetube. After the pipe has been used for some time and it is desired toclean the same the mouthpiece is iii-st removed from the tube and thenthe tube is unscrewed from the short stem a. The two sections of thetube can then be easily separated and cleaned. Then the sections arearranged together, the notches and projections forming a guide andpartial lock for this purpose, and when so connected the tube is screwedinto place in the short stem a, after which the mouthpiece is screwed inposition on the tube. It will thus be observed that the tube forms arigid base on which the mouthpiece is screwed to the short stem, andthus provides a stem of unusual strength.

The pipe itself may be constructed out of any desired material, and Ihave found aluminium a desirable material in many ways of which to makethe tube.

Changes may be made in the form and proportion of parts of my inventionand in the details of construction, but these are matters of simplemechanical skill and expediency and fall within the scope of theinvention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pipe provided with the usual tubular stem and mouthpiece, a tubecomposed of two longitudinal sections, the meeting edges of which areprovided with one or more short my invention I have signed my name, inpresseries of corresponding notches and projecence of the subscribingWitnesses, this 31st 1o tions, and having an enlarged screw-threaded dayof May, 1895.

portion adapted to receive the enlarffed screw- 5 threaded ends of thestern and tle month- EDWARD WM' BRYANT' piece to unite said partstogether, substan- Witnesses: tially as and for the purpose set forth.JAMES ALAN BRYANT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as KATE BRYANT.

